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...mutinies in the French army, destroyed the French Fourth Republic, brought to power the Fifth Republic of President Charles de Gaulle, and gravely threatened his regime, too. Last week the war was virtually over. At his headquarters in Tunis, Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda of the Algerian F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) declared: "It is now possible to say that the Algerian revolution has triumphed and has attained the aims for which it fought." Despite these words, there was little sense of triumph beneath the outward forms of jubilation. The big fact about the Algerian cease-fire is moderation...
...shaver sales have fallen from a high of $138 million in 1956 to $100 million last year. To maintain its preeminence, Gillette aims much of its annual $35-$40 million advertising budget to wooing new shavers. Sunday comic sections are saturated with ads, and jive-talking disk jockeys ad-lib the merits of a "smooth kisser for the cool chick, young buddy." For as Carl Gilbert well knows, today's peach fuzz is tomorrow's 5 o'clock shadow...
...past decade. Meantime, U.S. owners have registered 454 ships in foreign countries, including 259 in tax-free Panama, Liberia and Honduras. Not only can these "flag of convenience" ships be operated at half the cost of a U.S.-flag ship, but the 259 "Pan-Lib-Hon" vessels are under U.S. "effective control," i.e., Washington can order them into the U.S. merchant fleet in time...
...sweets it wanted. The other was restricted to two teaspoonfuls of sugar a day each, in coffee or tea. During the month-long experiment, all 52 got normal treatment with antibiotics. Result: at the end of the period, "the sugar-limited group did no better than the 'ad-lib...
...iron nerve of Charles de Gaulle (even the advisory Council of State, at the moment of crisis, had refused, 57 to 47, to vote the government its confidence). But De Gaulle had not wavered. Last week he was grimly pressing to reopen talks with the Moslem F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale), hoping to negotiate independence for Algeria before the shattered ultras could reorganize. For it was unlikely that even Charles de Gaulle could survive another hundred hours...